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Call for help to tackle increase in unpaid overtime

Union leaders are calling for a new right to switch off outside working hours after new research suggested employers enjoyed £27 billion of free labour last year because of unpaid overtime. The TUC said its study indicated that 3.8 million people ...

25 Feb 2022 at 01:25

National News

Overtime incentive offered to security staff to deal with delays at Dublin Airport

An over-time incentive system is understood to have been introduced at Dublin Airport to increase security staffing levels to cope with increased passenger numbers. Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) security screening was particularly stretched ...

10 Apr 2022 at 20:33

Scotland

Labour fears workers missing out from 100 million hours of unpaid overtime

Scots work 100 million hours of unpaid overtime a year – potentially losing out on more than £1 billion in wages, Labour has said. The party is calling on the Scottish Government to act to relieve the economy’s reliance on such unpaid labour. ...

03 Jan 2022 at 01:25

Rail passengers to face more disruption amid train drivers’ overtime ban

Rail services will be disrupted again this week because of a ban on overtime by train drivers as part of a campaign of action in a long-running dispute over pay. Members of Aslef at 15 train companies in England will refuse to work overtime ...

30 Jul 2023 at 11:16

Millions of workers doing unpaid overtime, research shows

Millions of workers are doing unpaid overtime, giving employers billions of pounds of free labour, research suggests. A study by the TUC found that teachers topped a list of those putting in the most unpaid overtime at more than four hours ...

23 Feb 2024 at 06:37

Overtime ban by train drivers ahead of strike

Train drivers will ban overtime on Friday ahead of two days of strikes which will cause fresh travel chaos for passengers. Members of Aslef at 16 train operators in England are embroiled in a long-running dispute over pay, with no sign of ...

29 Sept 2023 at 00:01

Rail passengers face a week of travel misery because of strikes

Rail passengers face a week of travel chaos because of strikes and other forms of industrial action in bitter, long-running disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. Members of the drivers union Aslef at 16 train operators in England will ...

29 Sept 2023 at 11:27

Scotland

Ambulance staff take on 3.3 million hours of overtime since 2017

Ambulance workers in Scotland have worked more than three million hours of paid overtime in the last five years, figures have revealed. Freedom of information figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have showed that more than a ...

15 Nov 2022 at 01:01

Trains cancelled as drivers refuse to work extra shifts on day of England match

Rail services were severely reduced across large parts of Britain on Sunday as many train drivers and other on-board staff refused to work overtime shifts on the day of England’s opening Euro 2024 football match. Northern, Great ...

17 Jun 2024 at 11:05

Scotland

Ambulance staff have worked more than 2.7m hours of overtime since 2020

Ambulance staff in Scotland have worked more than 2.7 million hours of overtime, figures show, at a cost of almost £74 million to the taxpayer. Statistics released to the Scottish Conservatives under freedom of information ...

15 Jul 2025 at 00:01

Local News

New overtime policy for Gardaí 'a disaster waiting to happen' – Cahill

Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary, Jackie Cahill has hit out at a new policy by the senior management of An Garda Síochána that would centralise all overtime decision making capacity in Dublin. Deputy Cahill spoke to a member ...

12 Sept 2024 at 09:33

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